Visualisation studio · since 1996

Evidence first. Pictures optional.

Councils get a shadow report they can assess. If you also want renders, interiors and sales collateral, the same model produces them — so you only pay to build it once.

Practising since1996 · 30 years
ClientsCouncils, developers, architects
Shadow setsJune 21 · 9am–3pm · 1:200
TurnaroundFrom 3 business days

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Daytime render of a contemporary house with carport and landscaped driveway

Single dwelling · exterior

What we do

One studio, in the order the work actually happens. The shadow report is the deliverable the planning scheme requires; everything after it is a decision you get to make later.

Shadow report

Hourly shadow plates and private open space assessments drawn against the planning scheme, with neighbouring dwellings modelled rather than guessed. Written so an assessor can read it once, and defended when the RFI comes back.

DA · BA · RFI sets

Renders & sales collateralOptional

Exterior and interior stills, aerial flythroughs, doll's-house plans, day and dusk variants. Built from the model that already passed the sun study, so the approval model and the sales model never diverge.

Stills · film · interiors

Embedded visualisation

For large projects we work inside your team — your files, your standards, your review cycle — instead of quoting image by image while the design keeps moving.

Weekly / monthly

SketchUp plugins & bespoke software

VisiShadow and MagicMesh came out of this work and are sold to the people doing the same job. Beyond that we build to order: web apps, native macOS tools, APIs, integrations.

Products · contract builds

A shadow set, as issued

Seven plates per site, 9am to 3pm on June 21 — the shortest day of the year. If the private open space holds its sunlight then, it holds it all year. Proposed building in amber, private open space in green, cast shadow in grey, every neighbour modelled in full.

Some samples of our work

Subdivisions, unit developments, single dwellings and interiors across Tasmania — the same models carried from the planning submission through to the display suite.

Subdivision projects

Subdivision · aerial flythrough

Aerial render of a hillside townhouse and unit development — Unit development · 42 units, aerial

Aerial render of a residential subdivision in late afternoon light — Subdivision · aerial

Street-level render of a new residential street — Subdivision · streetscape

Aerial render of a subdivision showing roof forms and landscaping — Subdivision · aerial massing

Dwellings & interiors

Overhead doll's-house cutaway of a house plan over the survey drawing — Doll's-house plan

Night render of a contemporary house with an uplit stone wall — Single dwelling · dusk

Render of a two-storey brick and cladding house with balcony — Mornington · single dwelling

Render of a dark-clad house extension with copper roof and courtyard deck — Single dwelling · extension

Render of an elevated house on poles with carport beneath — Elevated dwelling · exterior

Interior render of a living room opening to a deck and kitchen — Interior · living

Interior render looking across a bench to a courtyard dining table — Interior · courtyard

Interior render of a tiled bathroom with timber vanity and round mirror — Interior · bathroom

The tools that drew everything above

The shadow plates on this page came out of our own SketchUp plugins. We wrote them because the work needed them, then sold them to everyone doing the same job.

VisiShadow

Shadow analysis inside SketchUp. Sun positions, hourly plates and private open space calculations run against the model you already built — the same engine that drew every plate in the shadow study above.

Private open space shadowing
Neighbouring overshadowing
Overhanging building diagrams
Time range analysis
Date presets
Shadow animation

VisiShadow in detail →

SketchUp plugin

MagicMesh

Mesh generation and repair for survey data and terrain. Broken boundaries get fixed and contours become geometry that will actually cast a shadow, instead of fighting the model.

Rock-solid stability
Fix broken boundaries
Multiple mesh strategies
Multi-shape support
Boundary conforming
Line style options

MagicMesh in detail →

SketchUp plugin

Bespoke software

When a workflow has no product behind it, we write the product — web apps, native macOS and iOS tools, APIs, cloud hosting and integrations. Both plugins above started that way.

Web apps
macOS & iOS
APIs
Cloud hosting
Integrations

Contract builds

Contact

Send a site plan and a deadline.

Usually enough for a fixed price. We answer within one business day.

Emailsnester@viewbuild.com
Phone0458 787 111
HoursMon–Fri, 9–5 AEST
StudioHobart, Tasmania